Neolithicadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌniːəˈlɪθɪk/, U.S.

/ˌniəˈlɪθɪk/

Forms: also with lower-case initial.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: neo- comb. form, -lithic comb. form.

Etymology: < neo- comb. form + -lithic comb. form. Compare French néolithique (1866 as adjective, 1902 as noun).

Archaeology.

A. adj.

1. Of, relating to, or designating the later part of the Stone Age, following the Mesolithic period, traditionally characterized by the use of ground or polished stone implements and weapons, and later by the development of an agricultural rather than a hunter-gatherer lifestyle.The starting date of the Neolithic varies in different parts of the world. Some archaeologists have used the first appearance of pottery as a criterion for dating its beginning.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [adjective] > Neolithic

Neolithic1865

neolith1882

1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times i. 3 The later or polished Stone age; a period characterized by beautiful weapons and instruments made of flint and other kinds of stone... This we may call the ‘Neolithic’ period.

1874 W. B. Dawkins Cave Hunting vi. 189 This ancient neolithic race of men.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 249/2 Reckoning by that standard, we might push the earliest Neolithic remains back behind 10,000 b.c.; but the calculation would be worthy of little credence.

1952 G. H. Dury Map Interpr. xiv. 154 The commonest evidence of Neolithic occupance consists in long barrows, the characteristic mound of ceremonial burial.

1977 G. Clark World Prehist. (ed. 3) iv. 154 Michelsberg pottery dating from the latter part of the Early Neolithic settlement of Switzerland.

1991 New Age Jrnl. Apr. 50/1 A world where starvation and warfare are more common than they were in neolithic times.

2. depreciative. In extended use: belonging to a former era; outdated or primitive. Cf. stone age n. b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated

moth-frettenOE

antiquate?a1425

antique?1532

rusty1549

moth-eaten1551

musty1575

worm-eatenc1575

overyear1584

out of date1589

old-fashioned1592

out of date1592

worm-eat1597

old-fashion1599

ancient1601

outdated1616

out-of-fashion1623

over-aged1623

superannuateda1634

thorough-old1639

overdateda1641

trunk-hosea1643

antiquitated1645

antiquated1654

out-of-fashioned1671

unmodern1731

of the old school1749

auld-farrant1750

old-fangled1764

fossila1770

fogram1772

passé1775

unmodernized1775

oxidated1791

moss-covered1792

square-toeda1797

old-fashionable1807

pigtail1817

behind the times1826

slow1827

fossilized1828

rococo1836

antiquish1838

old-timey1850

out of season1850

moss-grown1851

old style1858

antiqued1859

pigtaily1859

prehistoric1859

backdated1862

played1864

fossiled1866

bygone1869

mossy-backed1870

old-worldly1878

past-time1889

outmoded1896

dated1900

brontosaurian1909

antiquey1926

horse-and-buggy1926

vintage1928

Neolithic1934

time-warped1938

demoded1941

steam age1941

hairy1946

old school1946

rinky-dink1946

time warp1954

Palaeolithic1957

retardataire1958

throwback1968

wally1969

antwacky1975

1934 [see neolithically adv. at Derivatives].

1940 A. Huxley Let. 24 Apr. (1969) 452 All languages embody fossilized neolithic metaphysics.

1977 Business Week 19 Dec. 6/3 Policies that were so Neolithic they created an antibusiness atmosphere as well as inflation and a recession.

1993 Options Aug. 17/2 Women comedians can get away with more of the sexual stuff. If I did smutty jokes I'd look like a neolithic idiot.

B. n. In form Neolithic.

1. Frequently with the. The Neolithic period.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > prehistoric periods

dark ages1842

Iron Age1845

iron period1847

stone period1849

lithic age1862

Aurignac1863

stone age1864

three ages1866

Palaeolithic1869

Middle Stone Age1870

prehistory1871

stone era1873

Siwalik1877

Neolithic1878

hemera1893

Mesvinian1909

Mesolithic1931

Abbevillian1937

Devensian1968

Creswellian1969

dryas1975

1878 J. Le Conte Elements Geol. 561 The Neolithic commences the Psychozoic era, or reign of man.

1931 Antiquity 5 518 In the new terminology three major divisions are recognised,..the ‘Neolithic’ continuing as usual though now including the old Aeneolithic.

1978 R. Bradley Prehist. Settlement Brit. 98/2 It is even possible that the bow had to be reintroduced in the Neolithic.

1989 J. P. Mallory In Search of Indo-Europeans ii. 61 The archaeological evidence for the Tarim Basin becomes exceedingly dim until the Neolithic (4000–2000 BC).

2. A person who lived in the Neolithic period.

ΚΠ

1921 Man 21 180 The Mediterranean Neolithics..have the same characteristics as the Nordic Neolithics.

1975 Current Anthropol. 16 331 It is very possible..that the material..represents different ethnic groups. The material from Varanger is intimately related to the Finnish and northern Russian Neolithics..[etc.].

1999 Daily Tel. 6 Oct. 28/2 Psychosurgery is as old as the hills—the neolithics are believed to have dabbled—but only really took off in the first half of this century.

Compounds

Neolithic Revolution n. [after French révolution nélithique, in E. Le Roy Les Origines Humaines et l'Evolution de l'Intelligence (1928) 293] the first cultivation of plants and domestication of animals, which took place during the Neolithic period and radically changed the structure of prehistoric society; the development of agriculture.

ΚΠ

1930 Jrnl. Philos. 27 499 It is only with the ‘neolithic revolution’ and the invention of agriculture that homo sapiens comes on the scene.

1958 V. G. Childe Prehist. European Soc. iii. 35 The European population graph would certainly show at the beginning of the New Stone Age a sharp kink and upward bend comparable to what ensued upon the Industrial Revolution in England. That analogy is my excuse for speaking of a ‘Neolithic Revolution’.

1992 P. Bahn Collins Dict. Archaeol. 70 This ‘broad spectrum revolution’..would establish economic, demographic and social conditions conducive to experimentation with domesticable plants and animals, and so stands as a prelude to the ‘Neolithic revolution’.

Derivatives

neoˈlithically adv. rare

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adverb] > in an old-fashioned manner

anciently1588

out1660

old-fashionably1764

old-fashionedly1808

frumpishly1927

frumpily1934

neolithically1934

1934 A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 299 A baroque theme interpreted by neolithically minded craftsmen.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	neolithic
释义	Neolithicadj.n. Brit. /ˌniːəˈlɪθɪk/, U.S. /ˌniəˈlɪθɪk/ Forms: also with lower-case initial. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: neo- comb. form, -lithic comb. form. Etymology: < neo- comb. form + -lithic comb. form. Compare French néolithique (1866 as adjective, 1902 as noun). Archaeology. A. adj. 1. Of, relating to, or designating the later part of the Stone Age, following the Mesolithic period, traditionally characterized by the use of ground or polished stone implements and weapons, and later by the development of an agricultural rather than a hunter-gatherer lifestyle.The starting date of the Neolithic varies in different parts of the world. Some archaeologists have used the first appearance of pottery as a criterion for dating its beginning. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [adjective] > Neolithic Neolithic1865 neolith1882 1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times i. 3 The later or polished Stone age; a period characterized by beautiful weapons and instruments made of flint and other kinds of stone... This we may call the ‘Neolithic’ period. 1874 W. B. Dawkins Cave Hunting vi. 189 This ancient neolithic race of men. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 249/2 Reckoning by that standard, we might push the earliest Neolithic remains back behind 10,000 b.c.; but the calculation would be worthy of little credence. 1952 G. H. Dury Map Interpr. xiv. 154 The commonest evidence of Neolithic occupance consists in long barrows, the characteristic mound of ceremonial burial. 1977 G. Clark World Prehist. (ed. 3) iv. 154 Michelsberg pottery dating from the latter part of the Early Neolithic settlement of Switzerland. 1991 New Age Jrnl. Apr. 50/1 A world where starvation and warfare are more common than they were in neolithic times. 2. depreciative. In extended use: belonging to a former era; outdated or primitive. Cf. stone age n. b. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated moth-frettenOE antiquate?a1425 antique?1532 rusty1549 moth-eaten1551 musty1575 worm-eatenc1575 overyear1584 out of date1589 old-fashioned1592 out of date1592 worm-eat1597 old-fashion1599 ancient1601 outdated1616 out-of-fashion1623 over-aged1623 superannuateda1634 thorough-old1639 overdateda1641 trunk-hosea1643 antiquitated1645 antiquated1654 out-of-fashioned1671 unmodern1731 of the old school1749 auld-farrant1750 old-fangled1764 fossila1770 fogram1772 passé1775 unmodernized1775 oxidated1791 moss-covered1792 square-toeda1797 old-fashionable1807 pigtail1817 behind the times1826 slow1827 fossilized1828 rococo1836 antiquish1838 old-timey1850 out of season1850 moss-grown1851 old style1858 antiqued1859 pigtaily1859 prehistoric1859 backdated1862 played1864 fossiled1866 bygone1869 mossy-backed1870 old-worldly1878 past-time1889 outmoded1896 dated1900 brontosaurian1909 antiquey1926 horse-and-buggy1926 vintage1928 Neolithic1934 time-warped1938 demoded1941 steam age1941 hairy1946 old school1946 rinky-dink1946 time warp1954 Palaeolithic1957 retardataire1958 throwback1968 wally1969 antwacky1975 1934 [see neolithically adv. at Derivatives]. 1940 A. Huxley Let. 24 Apr. (1969) 452 All languages embody fossilized neolithic metaphysics. 1977 Business Week 19 Dec. 6/3 Policies that were so Neolithic they created an antibusiness atmosphere as well as inflation and a recession. 1993 Options Aug. 17/2 Women comedians can get away with more of the sexual stuff. If I did smutty jokes I'd look like a neolithic idiot. B. n. In form Neolithic. 1. Frequently with the. The Neolithic period. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > prehistoric periods dark ages1842 Iron Age1845 iron period1847 stone period1849 lithic age1862 Aurignac1863 stone age1864 three ages1866 Palaeolithic1869 Middle Stone Age1870 prehistory1871 stone era1873 Siwalik1877 Neolithic1878 hemera1893 Mesvinian1909 Mesolithic1931 Abbevillian1937 Devensian1968 Creswellian1969 dryas1975 1878 J. Le Conte Elements Geol. 561 The Neolithic commences the Psychozoic era, or reign of man. 1931 Antiquity 5 518 In the new terminology three major divisions are recognised,..the ‘Neolithic’ continuing as usual though now including the old Aeneolithic. 1978 R. Bradley Prehist. Settlement Brit. 98/2 It is even possible that the bow had to be reintroduced in the Neolithic. 1989 J. P. Mallory In Search of Indo-Europeans ii. 61 The archaeological evidence for the Tarim Basin becomes exceedingly dim until the Neolithic (4000–2000 BC). 2. A person who lived in the Neolithic period. ΚΠ 1921 Man 21 180 The Mediterranean Neolithics..have the same characteristics as the Nordic Neolithics. 1975 Current Anthropol. 16 331 It is very possible..that the material..represents different ethnic groups. The material from Varanger is intimately related to the Finnish and northern Russian Neolithics..[etc.]. 1999 Daily Tel. 6 Oct. 28/2 Psychosurgery is as old as the hills—the neolithics are believed to have dabbled—but only really took off in the first half of this century. Compounds Neolithic Revolution n. [after French révolution nélithique, in E. Le Roy Les Origines Humaines et l'Evolution de l'Intelligence (1928) 293] the first cultivation of plants and domestication of animals, which took place during the Neolithic period and radically changed the structure of prehistoric society; the development of agriculture. ΚΠ 1930 Jrnl. Philos. 27 499 It is only with the ‘neolithic revolution’ and the invention of agriculture that homo sapiens comes on the scene. 1958 V. G. Childe Prehist. European Soc. iii. 35 The European population graph would certainly show at the beginning of the New Stone Age a sharp kink and upward bend comparable to what ensued upon the Industrial Revolution in England. That analogy is my excuse for speaking of a ‘Neolithic Revolution’. 1992 P. Bahn Collins Dict. Archaeol. 70 This ‘broad spectrum revolution’..would establish economic, demographic and social conditions conducive to experimentation with domesticable plants and animals, and so stands as a prelude to the ‘Neolithic revolution’. Derivatives neoˈlithically adv. rare ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adverb] > in an old-fashioned manner anciently1588 out1660 old-fashionably1764 old-fashionedly1808 frumpishly1927 frumpily1934 neolithically1934 1934 A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 299 A baroque theme interpreted by neolithically minded craftsmen. 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